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From: Grace Raih

02/06/2017

Subject: Public Records Law Request: Sanctuary City Federal Funding Boston

To Whom It May Concern:

Pursuant to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, M.G.L. c.66, §10, I hereby request the following records:

I request any and all emails and/or attachments, sent or received on the Mayor’s email accounts or the email accounts of those who directly report to the Mayor, between Jan. 20th and present, that make any mention or concern:
Federal funding and grants to the city of Boston
Boston’s Sanctuary City Policy
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
The 2014 Boston Trust Act

I also request any and all presentations, memos or reports created between Jan. 20th and present to address these respective topics.

I also request that, if appropriate, fees be waived as we believe this request is in the public interest, as suggested but not stipulated by the recommendations of the Massachusetts Supervisor of Public Records. The requested documents will be made available to the general public free of charge as part of the public information service at MuckRock.com, processed by a representative of the news media/press and is made in the process of news gathering and not for commercial usage.

I expect the request to be filled in an accessible format, including for screen readers, which provide text-to-speech for persons unable to read print. Files that are not accessible to screen readers include, for example, .pdf image files as well as physical documents.

In the event that there are fees, I would be grateful if you would inform me of the total charges in advance of fulfilling my request. I would prefer the request filled electronically, by e-mail attachment if available or CD-ROM if not.

Thank you in advance for your anticipated cooperation in this matter. I look forward to receiving your response to this request within 10 calendar days, as the statute requires.

Sincerely,

Grace Raih

From: Audrey Coulter

02/13/2017

Subject: Re: Public Records Law Request: Sanctuary City Federal Funding Boston

Hi Grace,

Please consider this confirmation we have received your request. To
clarify, are you seeking we use the below as keyworks?

"Federal funding and grants to the city of Boston
Boston’s Sanctuary City Policy
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
The 2014 Boston Trust Act"

Best,
Audrey

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Audrey Coulter

Associate Press Secretary

Office of Mayor Martin J. Walsh

617-635-4461 (w), 617-388-1343 (c)
*Notice:* This email is subject to the MGL: Chpt.66, Sec.10 Public Records
Law
<https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleX/Chapter66/Section10>
.

From: Grace Raih

02/16/2017

Subject: RE: Public Records Law Request: Sanctuary City Federal Funding Boston

Hi Audrey,

To clarify, please conduct five separate keyword searches for "Federal Funding", "Federal Grants", "Sanctuary City", "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement" and "Trust Act". Thank you very much.

Best,

Grace

From: MuckRock.com

03/03/2017

Subject: RE: Public Records Law Request: Sanctuary City Federal Funding Boston

To Whom It May Concern:

I wanted to follow up on the following Freedom of Information request, copied below, and originally submitted on Feb. 6, 2017. Please let me know when I can expect to receive a response, or if further clarification is needed.

Thanks for your help, and let me know if further clarification is needed.

From: Audrey Coulter

03/03/2017

Subject: RE: Public Records Law Request: Sanctuary City Federal Funding Boston

Thank you for your message. I will be out of the office with limited access to email until Tuesday, March 14.

If your email is time-sensitive, please contact the Mayor's Press Office at 617-635-4461, or email either Nicole Caravella ( (tel:617-635-4461) nicole.caravella@boston.gov) or Samantha Ormsby ( (mailto:nicole.caravella@boston.gov) samantha.ormsby@boston.gov). (mailto:sam.ormsby@boston.gov)

Thank you, Audrey
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Audrey Coulter Associate Press Secretary Office of Mayor Martin J. Walsh 617-635-4461 (w), 617-388-1343 (c) Notice: This email is subject to the MGL: Chpt.66, Sec.10 Public Records Law. (https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleX/Chapter66/Section10)

From: Laura Oggeri

03/03/2017

Subject: Re: Public Records Law Request: Sanctuary City Federal Funding Boston

Grace,

Please consider this email in response to your public records request
submitted on February 6, 2017 for "any and all emails and/or attachments,
sent or received on the Mayor’s email accounts or the email accounts of
those who directly report to the Mayor, between Jan. 20th and present, that
make any mention or concern: Federal funding and grants to the city of
Boston, Boston’s Sanctuary City Policy, U.S. Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), The 2014 Boston Trust Act." Per your emailed
clarification, we ran separate searches for the below search terms. The
resulting number of emails are below.

1. Search 1 - "Federal Funding": 553 results

2. Search 2 - "Federal Grants": 244 results

3. Search 3 - "Sanctuary City": 431 results

4. Search 4 - "U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement": 58 results

5. Search 5 - "Trust Act": 248 results

Pursuant to the Massachusetts Public Records Law, the formula we use for
the search, segregation, and copying of each requested document is $25 per
hour for staff attorneys and technical professionals. Based on a rate of
reviewing one document per minute, this charge means there is a $25 fee for
each 60 documents. In addition, the Massachusetts Public Records Law
requires the first two hours of search, segregation, and copying to be done
free of any charge. Therefore, there is no cost for the hour the technical
procurement of documents takes, or the review of the first 60 documents.

If you would like us to move forward with review of all resulting emails
from the requested search terms, the cost estimate to fulfill this request
using the above mentioned formula is $614.16.

Under the Massachusetts Public Records Law, it is your right to seek
redress through
the administrative process provided by the Office of the Supervisor of
Public Records, Office of the Secretary of State.

Please let us know how you would like to proceed.

Thank you,
Laura

From: Grace Raih

03/10/2017

Subject: RE: Public Records Law Request: Sanctuary City Federal Funding Boston

Dear Laura,

I very much appreciate this information. Moving forward, I wish to limit my request to files only pertaining to Search 3 for the keyword "Sanctuary City".

Thank you,

Grace

From: Audrey Coulter

03/10/2017

Subject: RE: Public Records Law Request: Sanctuary City Federal Funding Boston

Thank you for your message. I will be out of the office with limited access to email until Tuesday, March 14.

From: Laura Oggeri

03/10/2017

Subject: Re: Public Records Law Request: Sanctuary City Federal Funding Boston

Hi Grace,

Thanks for getting back so quickly. The revised cost estimate using the
same formula as before, limited to Search 3, is $154.58.

A check can be made out to the City of Boston and dropped off or mailed to
the following address.

Attn: Press Office
City Hall, Room 603
Boston, MA 02201

Under the Massachusetts Public Records Law, it is your right to seek
redress through the administrative process provided by the Office of the
Supervisor of Public Records, Office of the Secretary of State.

Thank you,
Laura

From: MuckRock

03/31/2017

Subject: RE: Public Records Law Request: Sanctuary City Federal Funding Boston

Mail

To Whom It May Concern:

Please find enclosed a check for $154.58 to satisfy the fee associated with the attached public records request.

Thank you.

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Submitted	Feb. 6, 2017
Due	March 27, 2017
Est. Completion	None